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Due to the Archives Centre's continuing cataloguing programme, we are making more material available to researchers all the time. Additions continue to be made to our miscellaneous papers (MISC) and to the Additional Churchill Papers (WCHL). Papers which have been closed are also opened regularly, mainly in January each year.

In 2003 the Archives Centre began a programme to provide online information on all our collections. By May 2004 we had information available for 50 per cent of these. By February 2005 this number was up to 70 per cent and we finally achieved our goal of 100 per cent by February 2006. These online finding aids are available on the Janus webserver which provides access to catalogues of archives and manuscripts held in Cambridge.

The following list of newly-available papers, which will continue to be updated as more papers are opened up, only includes openings or new cataloguing of significant amounts of material: for the full list of our collections, see our Full Guide.

• SEAG: Papers of Anne Seagrim, secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1950-54, including papers on her relationship with C P Snow, 1944-99, catalogued in 2011-12 (14.5 boxes).
  
  
• CCLK: Personal and political papers of the Ulster Unionist politician Sir Robin Chichester-Clark, catalogued in 2010-11 (37 boxes).
  
  
• RDWD: Early political papers of the politician John Redwood, catalogued in 2011 (3 boxes).
  
  
• CHURCHILL: Papers of Sir Winston Churchill, opened in October 2011 (c 300 pages). More information is available here.
  
  
• BORN: Papers of the physicist Max Born, catalogued in 2010-11 (84 boxes).
  
  
• LUNG: Papers of the interpreter Hugh Lunghi, particularly from the "Big Three" wartime conferences, catalogued in September 2011 (4 boxes).
  
  
• PIRI: Papers of the anthropologist George Pitt-Rivers, partly opened in May 2011 (50 boxes).
  
  
• PCHL: Additional papers of Henry Winston (Peregrine) Churchill, including family photographs, business and legal papers and visitors books kept by Lady Randolph Churchill, catalogued in April 2011 (5 boxes).
  
  
• THCR: Personal and political papers of Margaret Thatcher for 1980, opened in March 2011 (c 30,000 pages).
  
  
• LEVN: Papers of the film maker Jack Le Vien, relating to his films about Churchill, catalogued in May 2010 (4.5 boxes).
  
  
• WMYS: Diaries and correspondence of Lady Wemyss [née Victoria Morier], 1914-19, opened January 2010 (4 boxes).
  
  
• RACL: Papers of the physicist and wartime radar researcher Jack Ratcliffe, catalogued in April 2010 (32 boxes).
  
  
• HLSM: Personal and household papers of Lord Hailsham (HLSM 8 and 9), catalogued in 2009 (110 boxes).
  
  
• PCHL: Churchill family correspondence and albums, accumulated by Henry Winston (Peregrine) Churchill, opened in 2010 (8 boxes).
  
  
• FISR: Letters from Admiral 1st Lord Fisher to George Lambert, and other Fisher papers, mainly relating to the Dardanelles Inquiry, catalogued in 2010 (3 boxes).
  
  
• THCR: Personal papers of Margaret Thatcher for May-December 1979, her first year as Prime Minister, opened in 2010 (41 boxes).
  
  
• GNWR: Diary of the Labour politician Patrick Gordon-Walker on the polarisation of Labour MPs against Harold Wilson (GNWR 1/17), opened in 2010 (1 file).
  
  
• JACB: General Sir Edward Jacob's file on the memorial to Second World War soldiers in St Paul's and liaison with the Queen (JACB 4/27), opened in 2010 (1 file).
  
  
• SLGF: correspondence about Admiral Beatty's love affair with Eugenie Godfrey-Faussett (SLGF 16), opened in 2010 (3 files).
  
  
• STVS: the 1979 file of judgements by the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (STVS 5/14), opened in 2010 (1 file).
  
  
• PLDN: Papers of the civil servant Lord Plowden, opened in 2010 (76 boxes).
  
  
• KNNK: Papers of the Labour leader Neil Kinnock, catalogued in 2009-10 (937 boxes).